BODMAS Whole Unit | Lesson Notes, Slides & Activities | Year 6

This purposeful unit for Order of Operations includes three lessons:

Lesson 1 - focuses on introducing BODMAS, and the Need for Order, perfect for helping your students understand and articulate why we need an agreed-upon order of operations.

Lesson 2 - Focuses on applying BODMAS, through calculations and real life problems, perfect for helping your students understand and successfully use an order of operations.

Lesson 3 - Takes BODMAS out of the textbook and into a real world engineering challenge! Students will apply the order of operations to solve a complex, multi-stage project: redesigning your school’s emergency warning system and building a custom housing structure for its hardware.

Knowledge and Skills Covered:

Knowledge: Order of operations (BODMAS) and solving multi-step problems.

Skills: Apply BODMAS accurately and justify the order and method used in calculations.

What’s Included?

Your download includes everything you need for a successful series of lessons:

Unit Overview Notes: Outlines the knowledge, skills, and pre-requisites for the entire unit, exploring the question ‘Is order always important?’

Detailed Lesson Walkthrough/Notes: Includes a step-by-step guide with guiding questions and key discussion points for each lesson.

Guiding Questions: Great opportunities for AfL throughout each lesson, designed to help your students draw on their previous learning and make purposeful connections across the unit.

Lesson Slides: Engaging slides to guide each of your lessons.

Lesson Activities: Includes accessible, low-floor high ceiling activities for each lesson that all students can access through adaptive teaching, leading to improved confidence. There are also opportunities embedded in each lesson for further challenge to extend learners further.

Exit Ticket: A purposeful closing task to explain why mathematicians need a rule like BODMAS for each lesson.

This download provides both the Editable PPT Version and the PDF Version.

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